by Robert Harris
Harris' novel about a spy in wartime Bletchley Park is one of his earliest and most successful thrillers. It's a thoroughly well-turned piece, meticulously researched with strong characterisation and a gripping plot. The structural-engineering is perhaps a shade more obvious than I would have liked ...
Well, as a world war enthusiast among other things, I have read a lot about Enigma and its working. It is safe to say that had it not been for Enigma, Germans would have lost the war a great deal earlier and ironically it was due to Enigma that they lost the war, as they thought that its codes were ...
This is a fictionalized view of the British WW II code-breaking enterprise that cracked the German code scheme named Enigma. Set in the out-of-the-way English town of Bletchley. Tom Jericho is a whiz code breaker who was a crucial player in breaking the original Enigma code. But the effort cost him....
I'm usually very fond of books about WW2 and of books about cryptography, so I assumed that a book with both was bound to be in my taste. Unfortunately I was wrong, and while the book was okay, it was nothing special and even a tad boring from time to time.
I enjoy reading about Enigma, but the fiction was so so.
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